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Like wallwisher but maybe better?

oday, we are listing The Five Best Online Diagramming Tools. These would be very helpful for you to create professional looking diagrams, such as flowcharts, sitemaps, organisation charts, wireframes, and many more. If you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc but we hope that these are worth checking for all of you.

"The iPad running Air Display works like any monitor on the Mac, and is configurable using the standard OS X Display Preferences .. it is the equivalent of buying a new monitor for your Mac."

A pricy but very handy app for the iPad that works over a wireless connection. Although the review talks about OSX, this also works with a Windows desktop.

Gallery of learning technology ideas by some Victorian DEECD schools including planning, classroom case studies, stories and research.

Of interest perhaps to QLD learning technology coordinators.

"A portable QR code reader for the iPhone. Fast and effective with the real-time auto detect mode. "

I am fascinated by the idea of how QRCodes could be used in a classrooms when schools acquire iPad2 tablet devices (with built in cameras)

Presentation slides from George Siemens on Connectivism

The core content of Hector's World™ material features high quality 2-D animation with fun and engaging characters. Children can observe the characters as they learn how to stay safe online.

.. the oversized, centralized IT department of 2001 is a relic that's never coming back and IT pros need to prepare for the decentralized IT reality of the future where companies are going to keep fewer IT pros on staff, hire more consultants, and focus their IT resources on software, the cloud, and mobile devices

This site is designed to educate you about the latest happenings in all areas of Anti-Virus, AntiHoax, AntiMyth, AntiFraud, AntiChain Letter and Anti-Spam occurring on the Internet.

""Indigenous Literature to support the Australian National Curriculum. Focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fiction.""

"I've come across a lot of articles containing examples and suggestions for using Twitter in instructional applications. I've combed through many of these and tried to boil down the redundancies to create a rich set of idea-laden resources. "

Nice collection of articles and links to support microblogging in the classroom.

This series of reports explores new forms of teaching, learning and assessment for an interactive world, to guide teachers and policy makers in productive innovation.

Tagul is a web service that enables you to create beautiful looking tag clouds with hyperlinks and embed them in your web page

"In the 1950's Benjamin Bloom developed his taxonomy of cognitive objectives, Bloom's Taxonomy. This categorized and ordered thinking skills and objectives. His taxonomy follows the thinking process. You can not understand a concept if you do not first remember it, similarly you can not apply knowledge and concepts if you do not understand them. It is a continuum from Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS) to Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS). Bloom labels each category with a gerund."

Some interesting challenges fitting this into our new ICT enabled classrooms.

From CNN on TwitPic

On a lighter note ..

I put together this Innovation Checkmap.  It highlights the working relationships that should be present in healthy, innovative organizations; a visual checklist to guide an audit of the innovation capabilities in your organization.    The map is simple to use: